Ancient mysteries described : especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New Testament story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum : including notices of ecclesiastical shows, the festival of fools and asses, the English boy bishop, the descent into hell, the lord mayor's show, the guild hall giants, Christmas carols, &c.

by: Hone, William, 1780-1842; Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, illustrator

Publication date: 1823

Topics: Mysteries and miracle-plays, English, English drama

Publisher: London : Printed for William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

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Includes two plates by George Cruikshank

This is a later reprint (1860?) dated 1823, which Cohn calls valueless

Bound in printed publisher's boards

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cohn, A. M. George Cruikshank

Library's copy 2 is a gift of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles